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I can't believe perl 6 isn't even close to being out. I'm an old perl hacker from way back. It is nice to see new features in perl. Perl isn't as sexy as Python & Ruby these days but it still powers much of the web. The CPAN library is still far above than what any other language offers. If any of you have never hacked up some perl code, i can't recommend it enough.

Whalesalad, totally agree, Education startups are lacking. I'm very impressed with the new Schoolrack release. Hey we are getting close to you guys :) http://www.quantcast.com/edmodo.com

Third, launch then get feedback, interate quickly. I was scared when I launched my startup, but you will realize it takes time to get users to try your service out. We were lucky to get techcrunched before launch which led to a bunch of signups for our beta. So we had about 2000 users on our list prior to launching.

I started out keeping the day job and building on the side. After awhile it gets old and you lose all motivation for the day job. Since moving to working on the startup full time I have never been happier in my life. I wake up every day living the dream and have no plans on looking back. Unfortunately my co-founder is still working a day job, but we are close to getting him working full time on our little project.

Still doesn't mean we aren't going to compete and rest on our laurels :)

Yes, we can co-exist as healthy competitors. I'm usually not one for silly rants, my passion has gotten the better of me tonight. Edmodo, Eduset, and The Education Community as a whole is better served by us putting our energies into execution of our startups.

I agree, silly rants like this is absurd and really doesn't do any good and is not productive. Execution is key. I'm little passionate about my startup and that is why I replied. I never said he stole our idea. I said "almost" exact replica. Facebook borrows from twitter, eduset borrows from pownce, we borrow from twitter, facebook, friendfeed.

I actually have proof you signed up for Edmodo in October or November of last year, so you new about Edmodo almost a year ago. The classroom micro-blogging space may be big enough for two but we are more motivated than ever to own the educational micro-blogging space which we are already doing a very good job at it. I'm just letting the Hacker News users the similarities between your service and ours and ours is free unlike yours and we have a business model too :) We put our money where our mouth is and making the Education community a better place by offering the best free micro-blogging we can for individual teachers.

This is almost an exact replica of my startup http://edmodo.com which is completely free for multiple groups (eduset charges for more than 1 group), and already has decent traction with 87,000 registered users.

We run http://www.edmodo.com on slicehost and love it. I'm a bit worried about the rackspace aquisition, but giving them the benefit of doubt for now.

#13. http://www.edmodo.com Microblogging for Teachers & Students :)

How many Kindles has Amazon sold :)

I print my own using Avery Micro-Perforated business cards.